Exam question 2 · Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»

State the designation applied to a child who habitually prepares meals for and attends to younger siblings in the absence of a parent.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, child · What happens: state, apply, prepare, attend, absent · To what, where: designation, meals, parent

This is exam question 2 of lesson 502 «Minding the little ones: «you're the oldest»» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	State	state	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 designation	det
3	designation	designation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 State	obj
4	applied	apply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 designation	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 child	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 applied	obl
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 prepares	nsubj
9	habitually	habitually	ADV	_	10 prepares	advmod
10	prepares	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 child	acl:relcl
11	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 prepares	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	10 prepares	case
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 attends	cc
14	attends	attend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 prepares	conj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 siblings	case
16	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 siblings	amod
17	siblings	sibling	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 attends	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 absence	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 absence	det
20	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 siblings	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 parent	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 parent	det
23	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 absence	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 State	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	state speech: other	imperative	you not said here	the designation		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent designation=Topic
2	apply	participle		the designation not said here	to a child	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	prepare	present	a child	meals	habitually property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
4	attend	present	a child not said here		to younger siblings in the absence of a parent	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent to sibling=Theme
5	absent			a parent		nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

A minor domestic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 domestic	det
2	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 domestic	amod
3	domestic	domestic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A young carer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 carer	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 carer	amod
3	carer	carer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

A junior guardian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 guardian	det
2	junior	junior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 guardian	amod
3	guardian	guardian	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A household warden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 warden	det
2	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 warden	compound
3	warden	warden	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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